I work for Red Hat, where I lead JBoss technical direction and research/development. Prior to this I was SOA Technical Development Manager and Director of Standards. I was Chief Architect and co-founder at Arjuna Technologies, an HP spin-off (where I was a Distinguished Engineer). I've been working in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-80's. My PhD was on fault-tolerant distributed systems, replication and transactions. I'm also a Professor at Newcastle University.

Congratulations again, Mark. I've always appreciated your approach to software and your philosophy of openness and collaboration which guides it. I'm excited to see how this next evolutionary progression at JBoss unfolds.

Congratulations again!I'm quite curious to see where you will drive JBoss in a world moving to distributed solutions (call it SOA, cloud or whatever) your background could be the key of (another) JBoss success.